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  2. Systems novel - Wikipedia

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    Systems novel is a literary genre named by Tom LeClair in his 1987 book In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel, and explored further in LeClair's 1989 book, The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction. [1] LeClair used systems theory to critique novels by authors including Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis and Ursula Le ...

  3. Neuromancer - Wikipedia

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    Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy.

  4. It (novel) - Wikipedia

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    It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was his 22nd book and the 17th novel written under his own name. The story follows the experiences of seven children as they are terrorized by an evil entity that exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. "It" primarily appears in the form of ...

  5. Aurora (novel) - Wikipedia

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    942477364. Aurora is a 2015 novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. The novel concerns a generation ship built in the style of a Stanford torus traveling to Tau Ceti in order to begin a human colony. The novel's primary narrating voice is the starship's artificial intelligence. [1] The novel was well received by critics.

  6. Looking Backward - Wikipedia

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    vii, 470. Followed by. Equality (1897) Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a utopian [1] science fiction novel by the American journalist and writer Edward Bellamy first published in 1888. [2] The book was translated into several languages, and in short order "sold a million copies." [3]

  7. The Broom of the System - Wikipedia

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    The Broom of the System is the first novel by the American writer David Foster Wallace, published in 1987. Background [ edit ] Wallace submitted the novel as one of two undergraduate honors theses at Amherst College , the other being a paper on Richard Taylor 's fatalism .

  8. Foundation universe - Wikipedia

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    Foundation universe. The Foundation universe is the future history of humanity's colonization of the galaxy, spanning nearly 25,000 years, created through the gradual fusion of the Robot, Galactic Empire, and Foundation book series written by American author Isaac Asimov .

  9. The System of the World (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The System of the World is a novel by Neal Stephenson and the third and final volume in The Baroque Cycle. The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac Newton 's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which bears the same name. The System of the World won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel [1] and the Prometheus Award in ...